I’m confused. What does it mean to “promote altruistic behaviors”? Do they value people being helping, instead of just/mostly people being helped?
My $8,000 idea is: “Listen to Robin Hanson’s advice before passing a law or ratifying a constitution.” Not that he said anything specific about the subject, but the reason I say that is that I had just read this:
Fiercely industrious, the new migrant workers knew that one thing might prevent them from creating profitable homesteads from the rainforest: the discovery of uncontacted tribes, whose land is protected from development under the Brazilian constitution.
As a result, frontiersmen who first came across the Akuntsu in the mid-1980s made a simple calculation. The only way to prevent the government finding out about this indigenous community was to wipe them off the map.
I certainly could have told them that would happen, but this was an easy one...
This example is to illustrate my confusion: what does it mean to maximize altruism (the intent or process) rather than outcomes? The most well-meaning clause in a constitution led directly to genocide of the group it was supposed to protect.
I’m confused. What does it mean to “promote altruistic behaviors”? Do they value people being helping, instead of just/mostly people being helped?
My $8,000 idea is: “Listen to Robin Hanson’s advice before passing a law or ratifying a constitution.” Not that he said anything specific about the subject, but the reason I say that is that I had just read this:
I certainly could have told them that would happen, but this was an easy one...
This example is to illustrate my confusion: what does it mean to maximize altruism (the intent or process) rather than outcomes? The most well-meaning clause in a constitution led directly to genocide of the group it was supposed to protect.